During the 2007-2008 school year, we set up 22 speaking events on campuses. This year, we’ve already set up 49.

During the 2007-2008 school year, we gave out $1,978 in direct support to student projects. This year, we’ve already given out $5,801.

Our 2006 conference was attended by 30 students. Our 2008 conference (a joint event with the American Humanist Association) was attended by 80 students. This was made possible by more than $11,000 in student travel grants that we have offered over the last two years.

We’ve done all this with only two full-time staff members at the helm — a smaller staff than at many local chapters of Campus Crusade for Christ or Hillel. Imagine how much more we could do if we had greater resources.

There has been no better time to be an active atheist on campus — and no time more important for a group like the Secular Student Alliance to be there for those students.

We want students to feel confident when questioning religious beliefs and thinking critically about their own faith.

We want secular students to realize that they are not alone, and we want their friends and neighbors to realize that someone they know is nonreligious. The only way to do this is to make the secular student movement more visible.

I’m a broke art student. I’m doing my part by founding a secular student group at my own university. It’s proving to be a challenge, but it’s worth it if we can help people feel more comfortable with who they are.

Sam

I am a law student at a US school that has law societies for every racial minority and Abrahamic religion. I want to start a secular law society to balance it out a bit. Does anyone know of any national groups (preferably national law societies of one sort or another) I could get in contact with to start this group?

EndUnknown

wish i could, but im sitting at negative $3500 right now.

Miresse

Here, have some money! I gave through the non-paypal site, so I guess it won’t show up on that cool goal chart.

cathy

Apparantly there is an atheist group at my college, but they are practically a secret society. If you don’t even have basic contact information, you’re not going to get members.

http://www.thenewatheist.com The New Atheist

Off topic, but I just want to say my thoughts are with Stephen Hawking and his family..